> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Todd And Margo Chester
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> And, KVM is now off the hook, because, I am doing a backup and I
>> have not fired off a single VM this boot cycle, and ...
>>
>>    DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Sat Jul  7 22:59:37 2012
>>    DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
>>    DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
>>    DUMP: 1.19% done at 11362 kB/s, finished in 6:56
>>    DUMP: 2.62% done at 12559 kB/s, finished in 6:11
>>    DUMP: 4.05% done at 12953 kB/s, finished in 5:54
>>
>> It is doing its five times slower thing.  I wonder if there is something
>> coincidentally I do that is causing the slowdown that
>> I typically do it when I am running XP, maybe like listen to
>> music while I work, or something else.
>>
>> I am going to have to pay close attention to what I have run
>> on the Linux side when I have XP up.
>>
>> The game is a foot!
>>
>> -T
>

On 07/08/2012 07:08 AM, Joel Maslak wrote:> If you have RAID, are all 
the disks working properly (no failed
 > disks?)?  If using software raid, what does /proc/mdstat look like?
 > It's not rebuilding is it?  If hardware RAID, is the controller
 > actually decent (very few are)?

3ware LSI00216 SAS 9750-4i

 >
 > What does your memory usage look like when it works well and when it
 > doesn't (how much is available to buffers)?
 >
 > Is slocate running?  Is something else running doing a lot of io?
 > (use something like "iostat 5" and, ignoring the first line, compare
 > what it looks like before you start dump and the dump runs well vs.
 > when it won't)
 >

I have to reproduce it first.  Pretty sure slocate is not running
as I can not find it on my machine.  I have Xfce's "Performance Monitor"
plugins configured for both my hard drives, so I will pay
close attention.  A mouse over will give a nice synopsis.

My suspicion is on VLC.  Seems that the only VM I do any actual
work in is XP.  (W7 is too slow.)   Seems when I go into the
non-XP VM's, my mind set is to research something.  When I
am in XP, I am doing administrative work, so I fire up VLC.
(How can anyone possible write invoices without Puccini blaring
in the background?)

So, the game is a foot!

Thank you for the suggestions.

-T